Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonapartewas a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth15 August 1769
CityAjaccio, France
CountryFrance
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
Passions change, politics are immutable.
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
A Constitution should be short and obscure.